Ceno & Meso
Sociotype · Sociotype · 2025
Sociotype's first sans and serif pair, with Ceno's humanist sans rooted in Edward Johnston's Underground lettering and Meso adding 1970s experimental serifs.
About
Two sibling families of sixteen styles each, Ceno and Meso share a skeleton built on the 'essential form' of Edward Johnston's 1916 Underground lettering. Ceno is a modern humanist sans with vertical apertures, classic uppercase proportions and selective grotesk traits; Meso grafts serifs and flared terminals onto that frame, drawing on Percy Delf Smith's UERL petit serif and on 1970s experimental serifs such as Frutiger's Icone, Tony Di Spigna's Serif Gothic and Philip Kelly's Cortez. Each style carries 848 glyphs and the variable font lets you blend between sans and serif, weight and italic angle on a single axis.
Classification
Sociotype's first sans/serif pairing. Ceno is a modern humanist sans grounded in the 'essential form' of Edward Johnston's Underground lettering. Meso is a sibling serif built on the same skeleton, with serifs and flared terminals influenced by 1970s experimental serifs such as Frutiger's Icone and Philip Kelly's Cortez.